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Diana goes home and doesn't tell Sherry... How sad... :(
I want to go home too! Kent gets to see Diana so much more than I do -- it's not very fair... :(
Yesterday marked two weeks until I go home! I can't believe it's all converging like this... Already another year done -- god, by the way it's going, I'm going to be graduating in no time! :(
Today was the last Orgo lecture... I'm going to miss Fishman... I mean, he was a character. Today, as a way for us to remember the class by, he told us a story about a girl writing to her parents. She tells them that she's sorry she's been a bit remiss in writing to them since she started college but she's been very busy. And then she tells them to sit down, that they must absolutely be sitting when they read on. Then she goes to tell them that she's been doing pretty well, that she's finally out of the hospital and her concussion and broken collarbone have pretty much all healed. Now, she explains, she has mostly regained her vision back, save for a few spots, and she doesn't have dizzy spells more than once a day. She then explains that she had hurt herself when she had jumped out of her dorm room window when her dorm had caught on fire. But she was lucky because at a nearby gas station, a guy working there saw the fire and called the fire department and the ambulance. And because she had no place to live after her dorm caught on fire, he offered to let her stay in his apartment. But the apartment is really a basement and even though it's pretty small, it's also kinda of cute. Of course, she goes on to tell her parents that they've fallen in love and that they plan to get married. They don't know when they'll do it, but they're sure that it'll be before her pregnancy starts to show. She tells them not to worry, even though the guy's not very smart, he's very ambitious. And even though he's of a different race and religion, she's absolutely sure that with all the talk of tolerance they gave her, they'd be able to accept him as her future husband. She then goes on to say that they would have gotten married already, but unfortunately her boyfriend had contracted a virus that he gave to her and because of that, they failed the premarital blood test.
By that time, we were cracking up. The poor parents! I would freak if my daughter wrote to me saying something like that...
But then she goes on to say, "okay, let me tell you right now, my dorm never caught on fire, I was never in an accident, there is no boyfriend, I'm not pregnant and I'm not infected, but I am failing Organic Chemistry and when you get my grades, I want you to think about it in relation to how bad it could have been instead."
It was brilliant. Definitely, it's on all the minds of all us Orgo students now. And of course, we elapsed into applause as we do for our "special" professors... Now that I think about it, did we do it for Schiccitano when he had his last MolecCell lecture? Hmm... Probably. It's a bit inconceivable that we didn't.
Okay, it's 3:15 AM, I'm going to get in another hour of review before I go to bed. Tomorrow's Orgo midterm? Must pass with a very high average. Must! Otherwise, it would be very bad... And I don't want it to be very bad. Especially when the material is this easy! I'm finally getting amines, and going from chair to Fischer and Fischer to chair is finally kinda somewhat making sense. Benzene chemistry sucks ass because of the directing effects of different substituents but I think I'm getting it. NO2 is deactivating so turn it into an NH2 group through the use of Fe or Sn/HCl and then base and then use an alkyl halide and make an amide group because amides are actually strongly ortho/para directing. And to remove? Use base. Then turn the NH2 into a N2+ by using HNO2 (not HNO3 where if you use it with H2SO4, you'd get an NO2 group added to the ring) and you can substitute practically anything with it (reduce with H3PO2. Remembering what activates and what deactivates and what directs ortho/para or meta is hard since it was like last semester's work. And benzene chemistry has always had these subtle layers to it that make you trip up...
Okay, gonna study my phosopholipids and nuclei acids since I haven't really looked at it at all... I've been mainly doing carbohydrates, amines and a bit of amino acids. Shit, I have to do the Edman degradation mechanism... Hopefully it isn't on there because it's really evil and convoluted. There are so many random H-shifts -- I just tend to lose track of it.
And then sleep! I need sleep so badly! Need, want, crave sleep!
I want to go home too! Kent gets to see Diana so much more than I do -- it's not very fair... :(
Yesterday marked two weeks until I go home! I can't believe it's all converging like this... Already another year done -- god, by the way it's going, I'm going to be graduating in no time! :(
Today was the last Orgo lecture... I'm going to miss Fishman... I mean, he was a character. Today, as a way for us to remember the class by, he told us a story about a girl writing to her parents. She tells them that she's sorry she's been a bit remiss in writing to them since she started college but she's been very busy. And then she tells them to sit down, that they must absolutely be sitting when they read on. Then she goes to tell them that she's been doing pretty well, that she's finally out of the hospital and her concussion and broken collarbone have pretty much all healed. Now, she explains, she has mostly regained her vision back, save for a few spots, and she doesn't have dizzy spells more than once a day. She then explains that she had hurt herself when she had jumped out of her dorm room window when her dorm had caught on fire. But she was lucky because at a nearby gas station, a guy working there saw the fire and called the fire department and the ambulance. And because she had no place to live after her dorm caught on fire, he offered to let her stay in his apartment. But the apartment is really a basement and even though it's pretty small, it's also kinda of cute. Of course, she goes on to tell her parents that they've fallen in love and that they plan to get married. They don't know when they'll do it, but they're sure that it'll be before her pregnancy starts to show. She tells them not to worry, even though the guy's not very smart, he's very ambitious. And even though he's of a different race and religion, she's absolutely sure that with all the talk of tolerance they gave her, they'd be able to accept him as her future husband. She then goes on to say that they would have gotten married already, but unfortunately her boyfriend had contracted a virus that he gave to her and because of that, they failed the premarital blood test.
By that time, we were cracking up. The poor parents! I would freak if my daughter wrote to me saying something like that...
But then she goes on to say, "okay, let me tell you right now, my dorm never caught on fire, I was never in an accident, there is no boyfriend, I'm not pregnant and I'm not infected, but I am failing Organic Chemistry and when you get my grades, I want you to think about it in relation to how bad it could have been instead."
It was brilliant. Definitely, it's on all the minds of all us Orgo students now. And of course, we elapsed into applause as we do for our "special" professors... Now that I think about it, did we do it for Schiccitano when he had his last MolecCell lecture? Hmm... Probably. It's a bit inconceivable that we didn't.
Okay, it's 3:15 AM, I'm going to get in another hour of review before I go to bed. Tomorrow's Orgo midterm? Must pass with a very high average. Must! Otherwise, it would be very bad... And I don't want it to be very bad. Especially when the material is this easy! I'm finally getting amines, and going from chair to Fischer and Fischer to chair is finally kinda somewhat making sense. Benzene chemistry sucks ass because of the directing effects of different substituents but I think I'm getting it. NO2 is deactivating so turn it into an NH2 group through the use of Fe or Sn/HCl and then base and then use an alkyl halide and make an amide group because amides are actually strongly ortho/para directing. And to remove? Use base. Then turn the NH2 into a N2+ by using HNO2 (not HNO3 where if you use it with H2SO4, you'd get an NO2 group added to the ring) and you can substitute practically anything with it (reduce with H3PO2. Remembering what activates and what deactivates and what directs ortho/para or meta is hard since it was like last semester's work. And benzene chemistry has always had these subtle layers to it that make you trip up...
Okay, gonna study my phosopholipids and nuclei acids since I haven't really looked at it at all... I've been mainly doing carbohydrates, amines and a bit of amino acids. Shit, I have to do the Edman degradation mechanism... Hopefully it isn't on there because it's really evil and convoluted. There are so many random H-shifts -- I just tend to lose track of it.
And then sleep! I need sleep so badly! Need, want, crave sleep!
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